The Delta independent., 1887-01-18
COLORADO CONDENSED.

The total number Of arrests made in
Denver last year was $3.50.
The names of 1926 children are en-
rolled in the Sterling schools.
Over 200 men are at work in the
Midland shops at Colorado City.
The Silverton toboggan slide is said
to be the longest IN the United States.
Five gangs of Midland graders are
working within sight of Buena Vista.
The South Farm, near Monte Vista,
produced 1s,477 bushels of grain last year.
The six National ba of Denver
have deposits to the am of O,567,-
3lo.5s.
The name of Brush station on the
Julesburg branch Of the Union Pacific, has
been changed to Mustees.
Some seven or eight men have so far
lost their lives on the Midland grade by the
handling Of giant powder.
S. A. Gifiin has been appointed
Regent of the State University to take the
place Of James Rice, resigned.
Mrs. Singleton, of Denver. gave
birth to triplets last week. The combined
weight of the three was q pounds.
An enormous quantity of snow has
fallen on the range between Twin Lakes
and Aspen and snowslides are feared.
The band from Telluride which at
tended the inaugural ceremonies is said to
be one of the best that every visited Denver.
J. F. Cowles went to sleep on the
railroad bridge which crosses the Arkansas
near Pueblo, and was run over and killed.
During the past twelve months over
CSC, GOO have been expended in the erection
Junta.
The new iron bridge near Grand
Junction was recently tested with weight
OF twenty-five tons, which weight caused a
DETECTION of three-tenths OF an inch only.
Congressman Symes has introduced
bill in Congress granting to the Utah
Midland Railway Company the right OF way
through the Uncompahgre and Uintah re-
seryations.
A corps Of Atchison, Topeka d Santa
Fe engineers have commenced surveying a
line north from Pueblo. 1t is not known
whether Denver or Colorado Springs is
heir objective point.
People in Aspen are figuring on buy
ing In the Aspen Mining and Smelling com
pany stock that is advertised for sale on the
18th. II 1t is sold in blocks, as advertised.
the bidding VIII be spirited.
The condition of the range so far in
Southern Colorado is favorable. The SHOWS
have been light on the plains, at no time
preventing stuck from obtaining food. Stock
continues in good condition.
The last spike on the Texas. Santa
Fe and Northern railway was driven FRI
day night and now Denver and Santa Fe
are connected by a through railway. The
business men OF the two cities propose cele-
brating the event In an appropriate. man
ner.
The Denver Chambe of Commerce
at a largely attended meeting held Thurs
day night almost unanimously pronounced
itself In favor Of the Interstate Commerce
bill, and telegraphed request to the Colo
rado delegation in Washington to work and
vote for the bill.
Telluride was visited with destruc-
tive fire last week which caused n loss Of
about as, COO The fine new Court House
and nearly n block Of buildings were
burned. The County records which were
in fire-proof safe In the Court House are
supposed 10 be safe.
The assessor of Pitkin county created
quite a sensation by comparing the value Of
stock returned for taxation by Aspen mer-
chants with the amount OF insurance they
carried on the same, and the said merchants
are finding II a delicate piece OF work to
account for the variation.
The work on the Midland tunnel
through the Saguache range is progressing
without interruption from both sides, and
the machinery is In excellent order. The
laboring forces have been selected from
large number and are steady
Reports from correspondents show
that the fields Of fwinter wheat in Ohio, Mich
igan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Mis-
souri, are very generally well protected with
snow. In Atchison, Dickinson, Lincoln,
Neosho and Sedgwick counties in Kansas,
the fields are reported bare and ground dry,
with the crop looking poorly.
At y recent meeting Of the Land
Board application was received from the
Beaver Land Company for the purchase of
., ,5ss acres in Fremont county. The COM
pany agrees to pay $3.50 per acre and all
costs OF advertising. The secretary Of the
Board was ordered to take the necessary
steps for Offering the land for sale.
The total shipments Of red sand
stone, gray lime, silica rock and quartz
rock from the Glencoe quarries for 1880 were
/ $40 cars, "A total weight of Ia, ,4Ss tons These
quarrics furnished the red sand stone for
the Art building in Chicago, and are now
contractors in Omaha, Kansas
City and Chicago, making daily shipments
to those cities.
The State Dairy Association at their
late meeting elected the following officers:
II. ID. Southworth, Denver, president; Levi
Booth, Jefferson county, first vce-presi-
ln~t